Python Script for Moving Annotated layers

HaileyTimmons — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 16:51:50 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for some help writing a Python script to move my annotated layers outside of the buffer zone and to make them not overlap.

Any help is appreciated on this.

Thank you!

Re: Python Script for Moving Annotated layers

AlfredBaldenweck — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 18:14:14 GMT

I think you're going to need to give us a little more information to properly help you.

Do you have anything so far?

That being said, this was awful and I did not have a good time. This will probably help a little bit but you'll have to tweak for your usecase. I'd take a look at the Geometry methods for more ideas. It looks like the annotations come in natively as lines, so pay close attention to the polyline page.

import arcpy fc = r"path to anno" dX = -2000 dY = 2000 with arcpy.da.UpdateCursor(fc, ["ANNO@"]) as cursor: for row in cursor: graph = row[0].getGraphic('V3') newshp = newshp.move(dX,dY) graph.shape = newshp row[0].setGraphic(graph) cursor.updateRow(row)

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